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    Besides all the family reasons for him to be wearing a kilt here's the main reason:
    Queen Victoria really liked to get everyone visiting Balmoral to wear kilts. As often as she could. She thought it was great.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Galician View Post
    I believe that connection was through his mother. So why would his father be wearing a kilt?
    His mother was Princess Victoria, the Princess Royal, and her father, Prince Albert was German but that didn't stop him wearing a kilt, especially at Balmoral.

    She was in fact the eldest child of Victoria and Albert and had it not been for the male preference primogeniture system would have inherited the throne instead of younger brother Albert Edward.

    And if she had done so there would have been no Wilhelm and maybe World War I (and indeed II) could have been avoided.

    Ah, the twists of history!
    [B][COLOR="Red"][SIZE="1"]Reverend Earl Trefor the Sublunary of Kesslington under Ox, Venerable Lord Trefor the Unhyphenated of Much Bottom, Sir Trefor the Corpulent of Leighton in the Bucket, Viscount Mcclef the Portable of Kirkby Overblow.

    Cymru, Yr Alban, Iwerddon, Cernyw, Ynys Manau a Lydaw am byth! Yng Nghiltiau Ynghyd!
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